Your signature

[AstroSmurf]

My cursive is quite nice. I illustrated several comics in my teens and twenties so my block letters are very legible but straight out of a "funny page". However, my signature is nothing but a scrawl. I spent almost a decade working at hotels where I had to send out at least ten to twenty letters or contracts a day. After about a year of signing my name over and over the entire thing had run together into a scribble with a couple of swirls. I have tried several times to "undo" the way I sign but it always ends up the same mess it always is.

 

[ladyheather69]

Hmm...I have quite a few letters I sign, 18, and it is pretty much the same damn thing everytime! I have tried to change it up, to make it less easy to imitate, but I just cant freakin' do it!

So it takes me along time to sign my name. My hubby gets a bit p oed at me when we are signing 'official' documents and such. :P ha ha

 

[JiNX-01]

After 28 years of working (and playing) on computers, my penmanship isn't as nice as it used to be, but you'd still be able to read my name.

 

[TorontoTrekker]

Mine is the first letter big and loopy, all the vowels in my first name, my middle initial, the first letter of my last name big and loopy, all the consonants in my last name, and a bit of a flourish in the final letter. All done without ever lifting my pen from the paper.

Until I thought about it for this post, it had never actually occurred to me that I sign all the vowels in my first name and all the consonants in my last - that just felt natural.

 

[doubleohfive]

When I worked at the university admissions office, I often times had to sign both admission letters and denial letters to students who had been admitted or denied; the thing was I was signing my dean's name because the first dean I worked for couldn't be bothered to do such "menial" tasks.

When he was replaced, it was just assumed that this was part of my job, so I kept doing it, changing the signature to the new dean's name. Finally, at some point, (likely just before I left) I had convinced the dean to let me create a faux-position in our office to be the front line for inquiries and contacts, to determine if issues people wanted to bring to the dean's attention really needed to be brought to the dean and along with this I was able to start signing my own name. So, there's an entire class of graduate students from that final semester who were processed and admitted by yours truly in fact and in ink.

Oddly, it's one of the few things I'm most proud of from my time there.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

My signature's very messy. It's essentially the first and last letters of my first name, the first letter of my last name, and then squiggly lines.

 

[Ruaidhri]

I always had difficulty making the capital cursive S look even remotely nice when I was developing my signature, and it was also very inconsistent, so I eventually created a new S for that purpose. First name, middle initial and the beginning of my last name are legible. After that it devolves into squiggles.

 

[Ruaidhri]

Oops, double post.

 

[Aurian]

Mine has gotten significantly shorter after I started working where I do now. Most of the time it just looks like my initials and a little something extra. I have to write it.. a lot.

 

[TerokNor]

I am not sure I truly have a signature. I write it like I write everything else...sometimes with both first and last name written out, sometimes only the first letter of my first name and last name written out, sometimes only the first letter of each... but its just not looking any different than my normal handwriting. Is that bad? :-/

TerokNor

 

[Etched]

I just write the initial of my forename followed by my surname, the J and G (1st letter of my surname) are legible but the rest is just a series of loops and squiggles that has grown increasingly illegible over time to the point where I've pretty much dropped three letters from my surname.

 

[Roshi]

My signature says Alex J. Murphy.

Yes, the character from RoboCop.

 

[Holdfast]

I've reached the big letter, long unreadable squiggle phase of life. Unless I'm signing legal documents in which case I put forth a bit more effort.

Mine has gotten significantly shorter after I started working where I do now. Most of the time it just looks like my initials and a little something extra. I have to write it.. a lot.

These pretty much sum me up too.

I have a few signatures depending on what I'm signing. They're all variants on the same basic style, but if it's just a random thing at work, it abbreviates to almost a "Nike Swoosh" type tick.

If it's a slightly more meaningful letter, the swoosh develops some minor wave modulation approximating a couple of characters in my name... If it's something genuinely important, I do have a slightly more legible signature.

My sig has strong general stylistic similarities to both my mum and dad's ones, which themselves shared quite a few features. I think mine is similar to theirs because I copied theirs sufficiently frequently growing up... When I needed to develop a sig of my own I therefore naturally based it on how they did theirs but with a few differences.

When I later did a job that required me to sign off prescriptions zillions of times a time, that signature contracted down to the "swoosh" I mentioned above, simply because I was too lazy to sign them properly!

 

[bluedana]

For checks and official documents (anything I sign at work), it's my whole name, middle initial included, in pretty good cursive. For school notes, etc., it's my first initial merged with my last name. I do that because it would be nearly impossible for my kids to learn to forge it.

 

[Kestra]

No cursive for me, just a print scribble. I don't sign my middle name either because I got used to not having one and didn't want to start exerting additional effort.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

My signature is an illegible scrawl. This is because my dad is a doctor.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

My signature has on several occasions been mistaken for a crack in the fabric of space and time. It's hideous. But it's me.

 

[cultcross]

I never understood the dislike of 'cursive' writing in the US. Unless you're under 5, who wants to print every letter? I ahve to put serious concentration into not joining letters up
My signature is pretty consistent, my first initial and last name without taking the pen off the page - I spend my life signing legal documents so I had to develop one that was reasonably readable. I've also got so in the habit of including my collar number on the tail of the last letter that I find myself doing it in shops and things. Usually to an odd look that says "that's a weird surname".

 

[Kestra]

I guess mine is something in between where it's not cursive but the letters get scribbled one into the next.

As for the speed thing, I never got to the point where cursive felt natural so it's not any faster for me.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Cursive is definitely not natural for me. I print using all capital letters. I *hate* cursive.